Greeting All , My first 2 Irish male ancestors that came to America in their early 20's . . . John 1871-72 via Quebec & Geo 1907 via NYC. Both sets of parents were b. Ire as was John b. 1848. Geo was b. 1887 Eng. Geo lived in Yorkshire, No.Eng and sailed from Glasgow. John sailed from Glasgow while his sister Eliz. sailed to Amer. 1895 via Queenstown, Cork, Ire to Liverpool, Eng and then to Boston, US. All the ship info matches well for John & Geo (b. year , farmer etc,) except for nationality of Scotch. I'm pretty sure these are my correct ancestors. I suspect that either 1) agent just assumed and wrote down Scotch for McKenzie or 2) it was less of a problem at the time to give Scotch not Irish to sail etc. Does anyone with similar immigrat. info have other experience and/or explanation(s) ? Or was there a more specific reason one would give Scotch not Irish ? TIA . . . all the best , Walt -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.14/129 - Release Date: 10/11/2005